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  • From: Hal MacArgle <halinux AT kvinet.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 dialing problem
  • Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:08:55 -0400

On 08-17, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> > Sindi Keesan wrote:
> > >
> > > Most (maybe all) of the time when I dial with BL3 I am
> > > told that device ttyS1 is locked and it won't dial.
> > > first I dialed with Kermit in DOS and then booted
> > > to linux and dialed. Would this be causing the problem?
> >
> > Probably. It appears the stale lock is from DOS.
> >
> > > Is there a fix, other than dialing twice?
> >
> > Reset the computer before booting Linux.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
>
> Thanks for the explanation. Dialing twice is probably faster than
> rebooting DOS in my case. I was hoping I could just type some command to
> open the stale lock (maybe include it in a dial script).. I am still
> going online in DOS because DOS kermit has a scroll buffer in MDA mode.
> But soon there may be an 'mgacon'!


Go to /var/lock and rm LCK*??????

Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20-1)
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